Fiscal Year 2018-2019

About Us March 29, 2019 Annual Report 2017/2018
Arts and Cultural Exchange March 28, 2019 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Japanese-Language Education Overseas March 25, 2019 Kokusai Koryu Kikin Nihongo Kyoiku Kiyo Vol. 15 (The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Education Bulletin)
About Us March 20, 2019 The Japan Foundation Prizes for Global Citizenship (2018)
Arts and Cultural Exchange March 8, 2019 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Arts and Cultural Exchange March 1, 2019 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in March 2019
Library March 1, 2019 New Arrivals in February, 2019
Japanese-Language Education Overseas March 1, 2019 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
About Us February 22, 2019 Japan 2019
From March to December 2019
Arts and Cultural Exchange February 20, 2019 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Japanese-Language Education Overseas February 5, 2019 The 60th International Speech Contest in Japanese: Call for Applications
Deadline: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Arts and Cultural Exchange February 1, 2019 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in February 2019
Library February 1, 2019 New Arrivals in January, 2019
Japanese-Language Education Overseas February 1, 2019 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
About Us January 31, 2019 The Japan Foundation Awards 2019 Call for Nominations
Deadline: All nominations must be received by Friday, March 29, 2019.
Arts and Cultural Exchange January 30, 2019 Dancing with the Gods
Kagura Performance in Central Europe
Traditional Folk Theater from Tohoku region
Budapest: Tuesday, February 19 - Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Warsaw: Friday, February 22 - Saturday, February 23, 2019
Gdansk: Tuesday, February 26, 2019
【Related Event】
Screening in Warsaw: Thursday, February 7, 2019
Screening in Poznan: Friday, February 15, 2019
Arts and Cultural Exchange January 23, 2019 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Library January 21, 2019 Small Exhibition “From Our Rare Book Collection” (January 2019)
Dates: Monday, January 28 – Friday, February 1, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Place: 1st floor, Library
JF Worldwide January 11, 2019 Japanese Film Screening - Osaka
Dates: Sunday, February 17, 2019 Sunday, February 24, 2019 Sunday, March 3, 2019
Library January 4, 2019 New Arrivals in December, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas January 4, 2019 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Arts and Cultural Exchange January 1, 2019 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in January 2019
Arts and Cultural Exchange December 28, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Arts and Cultural Exchange December 17, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
JF Worldwide December 14, 2018 The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office New Year Japanese Film Screening (with English subtitles)
Dates:Thursday, January 24, 2019
About Us December 6, 2018 2018-2019 E-Greeting Card
Library December 3, 2018 New Arrivals in November, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas December 3, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Arts and Cultural Exchange December 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in December 2018
Arts and Cultural Exchange November 30, 2018 The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, an exhibition ranging from Haniwa to contemporary art, to be presented at two U.S. cities
Venue: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Dates: June 2 – August 18, 2019
Venue: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Dates: September 22 – December 8, 2019
Arts and Cultural Exchange November 14, 2018 Exchange Program for Professionals in the Performing Arts in North America invites a group of experts from USA and Canada
Dates: November 4 – 13, 2018
Press Release November 2, 2018 [Announcement] The Spirit of Asia Award by The Japan Foundation Asia Center for Tokyo International Film Festival 2018 goes to Mr. Huang Huang
Arts and Cultural Exchange November 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in November 2018
Library November 1, 2018 New Arrivals in October, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas November 1, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
About Us October 31, 2018 Talk by Toshio HosokawaA vibrating Path towards the musical Dream:From Noh-Theater to a new Opera form -Opera Erdbeben.Träume and other works -
JF Worldwide October 25, 2018 The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office Japanese Film Screening
(with English subtitles)
Arts and Cultural Exchange October 25, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
About Us October 17, 2018 The Japan Foundation Special Award (2018)Masahiko Tsugawa
Press Release October 11, 2018 Lineup Announced for
CROSSCUT ASIA #05: Soundtrip to Southeast Asia
Special Trailer also Unveiled
Arts and Cultural Exchange October 4, 2018 The Ishibashi Foundation and The Japan Foundation Art Curator Exchange Program
Special International Symposium Co-organized by The Japan Foundation and Art Tower Mito
Play ⇔ Replay: staging & re-staging time-based media art
Date: Saturday (National Holiday), November 3, 2018
Venue: ACM Theatre, Art Tower Mito
About Us October 2, 2018 2018-2019 The Japan FoundationE-Greeting Card Contest
Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 28, 2018
Arts and Cultural Exchange October 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in October 2018
Library October 1, 2018 New Arrivals in September, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas October 1, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Press Release September 26, 2018 "ONE CUT OF THE DEAD" first screening in China and popular Japanese films in 4 cities
Celebrating 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China Film Festival in China
―“JFF Web Magazine” now available in Chinese―
JF Worldwide September 25, 2018 Japanese Film Screening in November 2018
Dates:Tuesday, November 13 – 16, 2018
About Us September 25, 2018 Mekong-Japan Exchange Year 2019
About Us September 25, 2018 The 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Poland and Japan in 2019
Arts and Cultural Exchange September 25, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
About Us September 21, 2018 The Japan Foundation Awards 2018Commemorative Lectures
Date: Thursday October 18, Friday October 19, Tuesday October 23, 2018
Venue: JT ART HALL Affinis (October 18), Fuchu Campus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (October 19), The Japan Foundation Headquarters Hall “Sakura”, 2nd floor (October 23)
Japanese Studies and Global Partnerships September 13, 2018 Japan Foundation Fellow Seminar 2018 From ‘A Plan for Youth’ to ‘The Ruined Map’
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Venue: The Japan Foundation Headquarters Hall “Sakura”, 2nd floor
Program Guidelines September 10, 2018 The Japan Foundation Program Guidelines for Fiscal Year 2019
Press Release September 7, 2018 The Japan Foundation Awards 2018 Go to Yoko Tawada, Toshio Hosokawa, and Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca
Press Release September 6, 2018 Poster and Trailer Unveiled for Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey
Library September 3, 2018 New Arrivals in August, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas September 3, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Arts and Cultural Exchange September 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in September 2018
About Us August 31, 2018 The Japan Foundation Asian Art Archive
About Us August 30, 2018 The Japan Foundation Awards (2018)Yoko Tawada, Toshio Hosokawa, Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca
Arts and Cultural Exchange August 30, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Arts and Cultural Exchange August 2, 2018 Eitetsu Hayashi: Japanese TAIKO Drum Concert Tour with EITETSU FU-UN no KAI in celebration of the 90th Anniversary of Canada-Japan Diplomatic Relations
Dates: Friday, August 10 - Saturday, August 25, 2018
Venues: Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto
Arts and Cultural Exchange August 2, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Arts and Cultural Exchange August 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in August 2018
Library August 1, 2018 New Arrivals in July, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas August 1, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Press Release July 19, 2018 The Japan Foundation Asia Center & Tokyo International Film Festival to Showcase Cinema with Music of Southeast Asia
Library July 2, 2018 New Arrivals in June, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas July 2, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Arts and Cultural Exchange July 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in July 2018
Press Release June 28, 2018 550,000 People Around the World to Take
the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test in July
Number of overseas applicants up 47,000
JF Worldwide June 26, 2018 The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office Anime Screening in Summer Vacation(with English subtitles)
Date: Friday, August 3, 2018
Arts and Cultural Exchange June 26, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Press Release June 19, 2018 The Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 58th International Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (2019)
“Motoyuki Shitamichi＋Taro Yasuno＋Toshiaki Ishikura＋Fuminori Nousaku” have been selected to represent Japan
Arts and Cultural Exchange June 8, 2018 Japan Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2019
Dates: Saturday, May 11 - Sunday, November 24, 2019
Venue: The Japan Pavilion at the Giardini
About Us June 8, 2018 Application Guidelines - Eligibility Requirements for the Japan Foundation Prizes for Global Citizenship
Deadline for application:Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Press Release June 5, 2018 “Yokai: Iconography of the Fantastical. The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons as the Source of Supernatural Imagery in Japan”
An exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain
to be held in Madrid
Arts and Cultural Exchange June 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in June 2018
Library June 1, 2018 New Arrivals in May, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas June 1, 2018 The award recipients of the 59th International Speech Contest in Japanese announced.
Arts and Cultural Exchange June 1, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Japanese-Language Education Overseas May 31, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
JF Worldwide May 25, 2018 Noh Charity Performance: Prayers from Kyoto for Reconstruction of Japan’s Disaster-affected Regions
Dates: Thursday, August 23, 2018
Arts and Cultural Exchange May 24, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Japanese-Language Education Overseas May 18, 2018 The participants of the 59th International Speech Contest in Japanese have been selected.
Arts and Cultural Exchange May 15, 2018 “Yokai: Iconography of the Fantastical. The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons as the Source of Supernatural Imagery in Japan” An exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain to be held in Madrid
Dates: Tuesday, July 17－Sunday, September 23, 2018
Venue: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Press Release May 10, 2018 Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibtion
?La Biennale di Venezia
Architectural Ethnography, the exhibition aims to develop the discussion about our society in the future
Arts and Cultural Exchange May 7, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Arts and Cultural Exchange May 2, 2018 DRUM TAO "BUKYO ~ DRUMHEART" in RUSSIA
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Venue: Moscow Musical Theater
Arts and Cultural Exchange May 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in May 2018
Library May 1, 2018 New Arrivals in April, 2018
Japanese-Language Education Overseas April 27, 2018 "Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" was updated
Arts and Cultural Exchange April 23, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Arts and Cultural Exchange April 12, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Press Release April 11, 2018 …and Action! Asia #04: Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies:
Short Films Jointly Made by Japanese and
Southeast Asian Students Are Now Available Online
Japanese Studies and Global Partnerships April 11, 2018 “Translating Contemporary Japanese Poetry into Hindustani Language - Creating Space in Translation -”
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Venue: The Japan Foundation Headquarters Seminar room 2, 9th floor
Arts and Cultural Exchange April 3, 2018 The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions
Library April 2, 2018 New Arrivals in March, 2018
Arts and Cultural Exchange April 1, 2018 Japanese Film Screenings Overseas in April 2018

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